Thursday 4 April 2013

Something about free digital downloads.

When you look at the perks on our Indiegogo-Campaign, you may find something missing. Most music campaigns offer digital music downloads for a certain amount of money. We don't do that for one simple reason: digital downloads of the music of Fyra are free and will always be free.

To us the importance of a fan has nothing to do with how much money they got. There are so many equally important ways to participate. Everyone who likes our music and our message can call themselves a true Fyranian. In any way there will be free downloads of our music, if we don't offer it, someone else would do. But like this, we are able to be in a direct relationship with every fan.

There is a German ‘musician’ whose name I won't mention but whom I once liked a lot. I read an interview with him where he said something like: ‘If after a concert a fan would come to me and say “oh, I love your music, I downloaded all your albums on some file sharing platform”, I would punch him in the face.’ WTF? I now totally regret that I bought some of his records and went to a concert. When people download your records and like them so much that they come to your concert then that's an awesome thing. I'm so sorry that this ‘musician’ has not been punched in the face for thinking about his fans like this.

To those who are able to spend their money on music: you can really help us with supporting our campaign.

We really appreciate every contribution.

Yesterday, shortly after launching our campaign, Markus Bonsmann already pledged 50 €. Thank you so much. You, Markus Bonsmann, are AWESOME!
Your support for and belief in the project shows us, that we are doing totally the right thing. This gives us the motivation to go on and do great stuff.

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